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Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

I think 1 GB memory may be your problem. It is quite low for gaming for this time. Possibly it fulfills the minimum requirement of the specs but even if it runs it will be very slow and unstable. I assume 2 GB extra memory will not cost even as much as the FM disc.

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

Go for 3 or 4 gig. I had 2gig on FM09 and had problems with the game crashing -upgraded to 4 gig and no problems now, very smooth and quick. Just a word about memory. Be careful about going for the cheapest, unbranded RAM can cause problems, imo you're better going for a branded make and try to match the make with what you already have installed as matching pairs are more steady and generally work better.

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

It's not low RAM. Had the game quit on me for low memory once so far and I'm equiped with 4GB. There were a few other things open at the time but I usually have much more and its been fine, even on my old laptop with I think only had 1GB, though it was on XP so I only needed half that. Maybe its because Vista requires more space for everything but 09's requirements were the same and that was fine.

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

Originally Posted by deltablue

It's not low RAM.

That's the point, it's not how much RAM you have, people should care of this, it's how the software use it.
You can have 1 Petabyte and still have problems.
What I can't understand is: why was demo absolutely perfect in this sense and why has full game such a problem? I'm asking because I have never found those problems in FM since this release.

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

I have the same problem, can't load the game at all due to this out of memory message. I have 4gb ram with a 4gb page file and only 30% - 40% of my ram is used when the crash occurs. Never had a problem with any previous FM/CM version.

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

you have 1 gig of memory,. but what operating system are you running? If your running vista or even windows 7 then all of your memory usage will be taken by the operating system,. and i do mean all of it.

To increase virtual memory you need to right click on the game .exe file, go to properties and select.. actually i have totally forgot how to do it sorry lol. Been such a long time since i had to last do it.

ok found this for you.

In Windows XP

1.Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
2.Click Performance and Maintenance, and then click System.
3.On the Advanced tab, under Performance, click Settings.
4.On the Advanced tab, under Virtual memory, click Change.
5.Under Drive [Volume Label], click the drive that contains the paging file that you want to change.
6.Under Paging file size for selected drive, click to Custom size check box. You can enter the amount of memory you would like to reserve for Virtual memory by entering the initial and maximum size.
7.Click Set
When you are prompted to restart the computer, click Yes.
Special Note: You should choose the same amount for the initial size and maximum size. This will Stop your CPU from constantly changing the paging file.
To stop your CPU from constantly changing the paging file, set the initial and maximum size to the same value. For example, 500 and 500. The value should be at least 1.5 times more than your physical RAM. If your computer has 512MB of RAM increase the virtual memory paging file to 1.5*512= 768

In Vista

1. Click Start button Picture of the Start button
2. Click Control Panel
3. Choose System and Maintenance and then click System.
4. In the left pane, click Advanced system settings.
5.On the Advanced tab, under Performance, click Settings.
6. Click the Advanced tab, and then, under Virtual memory, choose Change.
7. Click Custom to change the Initial size (MB) and Maximum size. See the hot tip above.

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

Originally Posted by lawsie

you have 1 gig of memory,. but what operating system are you running? If your running vista or even windows 7 then all of your memory usage will be taken by the operating system,. and i do mean all of it.

To increase virtual memory you need to right click on the game .exe file, go to properties and select.. actually i have totally forgot how to do it sorry lol. Been such a long time since i had to last do it.

ok found this for you.

In Windows XP

1.Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
2.Click Performance and Maintenance, and then click System.
3.On the Advanced tab, under Performance, click Settings.
4.On the Advanced tab, under Virtual memory, click Change.
5.Under Drive [Volume Label], click the drive that contains the paging file that you want to change.
6.Under Paging file size for selected drive, click to Custom size check box. You can enter the amount of memory you would like to reserve for Virtual memory by entering the initial and maximum size.
7.Click Set
When you are prompted to restart the computer, click Yes.
Special Note: You should choose the same amount for the initial size and maximum size. This will Stop your CPU from constantly changing the paging file.
To stop your CPU from constantly changing the paging file, set the initial and maximum size to the same value. For example, 500 and 500. The value should be at least 1.5 times more than your physical RAM. If your computer has 512MB of RAM increase the virtual memory paging file to 1.5*512= 768

In Vista

1. Click Start button Picture of the Start button
2. Click Control Panel
3. Choose System and Maintenance and then click System.
4. In the left pane, click Advanced system settings.
5.On the Advanced tab, under Performance, click Settings.
6. Click the Advanced tab, and then, under Virtual memory, choose Change.
7. Click Custom to change the Initial size (MB) and Maximum size. See the hot tip above.

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

Originally Posted by lawsie

you have 1 gig of memory,. but what operating system are you running? If your running vista or even windows 7 then all of your memory usage will be taken by the operating system,. and i do mean all of it.

To increase virtual memory you need to right click on the game .exe file, go to properties and select.. actually i have totally forgot how to do it sorry lol. Been such a long time since i had to last do it.

ok found this for you.

In Windows XP

1.Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
2.Click Performance and Maintenance, and then click System.
3.On the Advanced tab, under Performance, click Settings.
4.On the Advanced tab, under Virtual memory, click Change.
5.Under Drive [Volume Label], click the drive that contains the paging file that you want to change.
6.Under Paging file size for selected drive, click to Custom size check box. You can enter the amount of memory you would like to reserve for Virtual memory by entering the initial and maximum size.
7.Click Set
When you are prompted to restart the computer, click Yes.
Special Note: You should choose the same amount for the initial size and maximum size. This will Stop your CPU from constantly changing the paging file.
To stop your CPU from constantly changing the paging file, set the initial and maximum size to the same value. For example, 500 and 500. The value should be at least 1.5 times more than your physical RAM. If your computer has 512MB of RAM increase the virtual memory paging file to 1.5*512= 768

In Vista

1. Click Start button Picture of the Start button
2. Click Control Panel
3. Choose System and Maintenance and then click System.
4. In the left pane, click Advanced system settings.
5.On the Advanced tab, under Performance, click Settings.
6. Click the Advanced tab, and then, under Virtual memory, choose Change.
7. Click Custom to change the Initial size (MB) and Maximum size. See the hot tip above.

I had the same problem about running dangeroulsly low on memory, then running out of memory completely whenever i tried to play my first game. But i followed the steps above for vista and now it works perfectly. So thanks for the advice

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

You could try downloading and using game booster (it's a free app that temporarily shuts down background processes) and making sure all other un-needed applications are closed down while playing FM, it's what I've been doing since my laptop isn't a bit old and not quite up to the games system requirements and it's been running fine since.

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

We are looking into this most definitely, for now I would certainly suggest don't run bloated saves with many random leagues - try and keep it down and there is much less chance of this happening.

i have a quad core, 4 gb ddr2 ram gaming system running 6 leagues (english, italian, spanish, french, dutch and german top leagues only) with no others on see only or anything, and am having the same issue. i also have a stupidly high virtual memory pager (around 40 gig to try and fix this! lol) which makes no difference - im lucky to get through one game on 2d graphics, and 3d graphics wont even load, i just get same error.

one thing i did notice is that this only started happening after a fairly recent windows update, there were no issues beforehand. maybe something in there is the real issue (ie clash somewhere), and not the actual game coding per se?

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

It is a memory leak , disabling stadium, sound , crowd etc will let me play like 2 hours before it crashes ( ram use jump from 500k to 1.2mb ) , it is annoying but the game is very fast on saving/loading so i don't mind restarting after 2 hours.

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

its not a problem with memory its a problem with your on drivers for your motherboard, up to now its also unfixable with all the updates faq's etc unless you change your motherbaord

i have had the same problem and could not start a game as i was getting this error, tried everything xp-vista-Win7 new graphics card upgrade RAM update'd ALL software still would not load up the start game menu had to load the wrong motherboard drivers onto a different hard drive with vista in order to play on my PC

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

just got the error again.

my memory usage is at 10% of capacity and cpu is spiking at 15%, so im finding difficult to believe its a memory leak now. note, ive kept task manager open and watched it not even spike when got the error.

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

i would go for 4096 in both boxes... if possible put it on a drive that the operating system isn't on!

Originally Posted by baker.simon

I guess a relevant question is, how easy is it to fit more RAM into a laptop?

Another, is there an effective limit on RAM recognised by your system? ie, 32-bit operating systems only using 3.5GB (ish) therefore its pointless getting anymore.

Pretty easy. There will be a panel underneath most laptops which indicates where RAM is(look at user manual? maybe from your manufacturers website if unsure) Simply unscrew it... then there is usually 1 or 2 slots... If 1 then you'll have to replace it with the new RAM or if 2 your computer should hapilly accept the new RAM in the second slot. (look at how the current one is fitted and make sure you put it in the same way... it should be simple to see)

To make sure you get the right RAM just go to crucial.com/uk and use the system scanner to tell you what RAM you need then search around for the best price as crucial might be more expensive then some places

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

So ... now I can't play a long career for 2 reasons, this memory leak (after 1 season already sometimes in holiday game) and the flaws with regens ... geuss I'll just stick to editor until the game is playable, I'm really disappointed.

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

We're aware whilst patch 10.1.1 fixed some of the issues that a small amount of users are facing memory wise, we're aware of some other issues and knock on issues that have been raised, and have a team of people looking into the problems with respect to having more changes being made for patch 2, many of which have been made already. Patch 2 is still on schedule for being released before Xmas.

Until these have gone through a full testing cycle, we don't know what will work and what won't, but you can limit any problems with the following.

1) Do not start a game with an amount of leagues/added players that your machine cannot handle. We would not recommend anyone with 1MB RAM starting a game with more than 20,000 players loaded, nor more than 75,000 players for anyone with 2MB RAM or above at this stage - there still isn't a home computer that can handle running all leagues in the game, and the specs on the back of the box are the minimum specs needed to play the game, not to play the game with everything turned up to maximum.

2) Do not use ANY saved game/real time editors. We'll try and help anyone with a problem, but if you've used a third party tool, we have no idea what they are doing, and we definitely have some cases of corrupt saved games and corrupt memory being caused by these kinds of tools.

3) If you are having these issues, it's worth keeping "task manager" open to check memory usage and play in windowed mode. If you find the game using huge amounts of memory, then minimise the game window, and maximise it again, which seems to "flush" the memory.

4) Managing multiple clubs can have a memory effect, and this is a bug which has been fixed for patch 2 (subject to QA verifying). Thank you to those of you who pointed us in the direction of this, as the info your provided was invaluable in tracking this down.

5) Save the game regularly!

I know this isn't ideal, but we are very much looking into this issue and spending a very large amount of time trying to track it down. I know many of you are frustrated and understandably so - we really appreciate your patience in this matter. Thanks.

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

Originally Posted by Neil Brock

[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] 3) If you are having these issues, it's worth keeping "task manager" open to check memory usage and play in windowed mode. If you find the game using huge amounts of memory, then minimise the game window, and maximise it again, which seems to "flush" the memory.[FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2][COLOR=black]

Excuse my ignorance, but how can I play FM in windowed mode?
Can I get FM to launch in a window or do I have to do it once in a game?
TY for any replies in advance.

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

Originally Posted by Rice2cu

Excuse my ignorance, but how can I play FM in windowed mode?
Can I get FM to launch in a window or do I have to do it once in a game?
TY for any replies in advance.

Ok, on the Preferences screen, go to the display tab. It is near where you select the skin, there is a drop down box. It has options such as 1260x840, etc., at the bottom of that list there is the option to play in Windowed mode.

You may want to use the Netbook Skin (not sure if I am allowed to link....?) as will not be able to see your whole squad any more. Perhaps only 19 players.

Hope this Helps.

To the Original Poster - Welcome to our 'Minority'. Like many others I am enjoying My Crash Dump Manager 2010 - I am doing really well, I have had crash dumps in England, twice, Germany and Russia/Ukraine - I am on my way to the 'Hall of Fame.....'

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

Originally Posted by qualitystreet

Ok, on the Preferences screen, go to the display tab. It is near where you select the skin, there is a drop down box. It has options such as 1260x840, etc., at the bottom of that list there is the option to play in Windowed mode.

You may want to use the Netbook Skin (not sure if I am allowed to link....?) as will not be able to see your whole squad any more. Perhaps only 19 players.

Hope this Helps..'

Thanks mate, but for some reason, that option is currently greyed out on the drop down box and I cannot select it.
Do I have to choose windowed mode before I set up a game?
In other words, is it be possible to play a saved game in windowed mode if you did not select that option before you confimed the start of the game?

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

Originally Posted by Rice2cu

Thanks mate, but for some reason, that option is currently greyed out on the drop down box and I cannot select it.
Do I have to choose windowed mode before I set up a game?
In other words, is it be possible to play a saved game in windowed mode if you did not select that option before you confimed the start of the game?

The problem is that you need to change the screen resolution on your monitor. I have a 1280x800 resolution, and I can change this in the start screen and in an abandonned save game.

On Vista, for example, right click on the desktop and click Personalise and at the bottom there is an option called Display Settings, you can change the resolution on there. Perhaps on your monitor as well.

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

The problem is that you need to change the screen resolution on your monitor. I have a 1280x800 resolution, and I can change this in the start screen and in an abandonned save game.

On Vista, for example, right click on the desktop and click Personalise and at the bottom there is an option called Display Settings, you can change the resolution on there. Perhaps on your monitor as well.

Thanks mate but Im running XP.
I think I found how to change resoloution (Right click desktop and choose properties) but it just made all my desktop icons smaller and the task bar disapeared.
I cant see how that will help anyway, how will that "Ungrey" the windowed option in preferences in FM?

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

this problem just appeared on my pc 2. i have 4gb kingostone ddr2 800mhz and this is whats going on. when i start fm, game memory usage is around 300mb, when i load game it jumps to ~600mb. while im playing its filling memory easily, but even when i dont do anything usage increases. when i get to the match memory usage jumps to over 1gb (sometimes it frees some memory when i go to the match) and very often it crashes when i enter tactics in the match because memory usage go over 2GB. ive tried different memory defragment and recovery programs but nothing can salvage enough memory. ive hit 8th season now so saving/loading after every 2-3 games isnt very entertaining !!

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

Originally Posted by velja

this problem just appeared on my pc 2. i have 4gb kingostone ddr2 800mhz and this is whats going on. when i start fm, game memory usage is around 300mb, when i load game it jumps to ~600mb. while im playing its filling memory easily, but even when i dont do anything usage increases. when i get to the match memory usage jumps to over 1gb (sometimes it frees some memory when i go to the match) and very often it crashes when i enter tactics in the match because memory usage go over 2GB. ive tried different memory defragment and recovery programs but nothing can salvage enough memory. ive hit 8th season now so saving/loading after every 2-3 games isnt very entertaining !!

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

I have made a article about how to improve football manager performance and this will help you to have low CPU usage and RAM usage. I am currently running Football Manager 2010 on my 3 year old laptop which only has 1GB Ram with a Intel Core 2 processor @ 1.60 GHz and It runs smoothly without any problems.

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

I have just encountered this error message for the first time the game has worked for ages until steam said it had installed some new patch :S my laptop has 3gb ram but its still not working ive cleared my cache and everything.

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

I haven't had this problem as such yet, however when I strarted a new game with 10.3, loaded up my usual three nations, about 7 leagues and small database it has half a star rating for game performance, wheras before the same setup had four iirc. Not had any actual problems with game play but is this related? Laptop is t6400 (2.0ghz, 800 MHz FSB), 4GB DDR2.

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

Originally Posted by Aiden-606

I have just encountered this error message for the first time the game has worked for ages until steam said it had installed some new patch :S my laptop has 3gb ram but its still not working ive cleared my cache and everything.

I have also just got this message, steam installed the new patch and now i get error message not enough memory everytime i try and start FM2010, it is driving me made.

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

I too have encountered this problem suddenly. It has happened after playing 4 seasons. I only have the English league as playable and no other leagues at all active in any way. It won't allow me to load my previous game. I uninstalled and re-installed and nothing. This is a serious issue. I used smart RAM to recover memory and Game Booster program to be in peak shape for playing. It noticeably improved other games I play, but FM 2010 will still just give me this error. I am super ****ed!

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

The same things are happening to me when I try to start a new game. I have tryed manual system restore and I am patched to 10.3. I also tryed a manuel unistall but it worked for about 1 week but it started at the same time. It crashes when it is about to start making the new game and it hapens no matter how many league's I load.

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

I am seeing here that a person only needs 512MB of RAM with XP... well, having 2GB should mean this issue would not exist right? Processor is more than adequate. In fact, all specs are well above requirements. This has recently started happening to another person I know. I didn't spend 400+ hours on this game just to be shut down now by something that is obviously a game issue.

Someone please post something I can use to fix this...

I can verify I have tried the above instruction to uninstall/reinstall
I can verify I am running the most recent patch of the game

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

So I went today and purchased 4 1GB sticks of RAM. They are installed and I increased the memory. I have closed every background program, uninstalled and re-installed the game. The error is still there. I now have 2.5GB of memory allocated (XP does not use all 4GB).

All this and not one person who knows anything can post something here to help?

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

if it was working before and suddenly you are getting error goto C:\Documents and Settings\< installed user>\Application Data\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2010 and remove all the files. then start the game again.

Re: football manager 2010 is running dangerously low on memory

Originally Posted by Santosh

if it was working before and suddenly you are getting error goto C:\Documents and Settings\< installed user>\Application Data\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2010 and remove all the files. then start the game again.

This was done several times. This thread also is 2 months old. I gave up on it. I am a minority when it comes to this issue, I don't think I matter enough to solve the problem.

im into like my 7th season and it appears after about 3 games and turns of when i press ok. Why would it only suddenly happen? its pretty much the only thing on my pc. The only thing i can think of is a update since i doubt amotherboard issue would only reveal itself now?

having the same problem was runing normal then yesterday i have got error. have increased V.M but still having the problem.My PC dual core 2.8 4GB RAM running only 2 leagues on large database.Never having this problem before

the computer had automatically only allocated 2.8gb for virtual memory so I increased it to the maximum available which is 4.219gb so by doing that, I certainly hope I wont be getting this error anytime soon. It was the 1st time it ever happened to me in CM/FM history and I started playing it when cm01/02 was out

I would advise you all that are having this problem to adjust the virtual memory settings as explained above and type in the maximum recommended which is usually a tiny bit OVER the amount of RAM you have. Use the same number in the minimum and maximum box. You may need to restart your computer for those new setting to take effect.

Also if you have a ram/memory hogging anti-virus program like AVG then uninstall it, totally remove it from your computer and install a low memory using anti-virus program like Avast!.

That should make enough difference for you not to worry about FM running dangerously low on memory ever again.

That is all I have done to fix my computer since last night. I have also edited a couple of numerical values in my registry editor to allow my computer/laptop to startup & shutdown quicker. Have also uninstalled programmes I do not use nor need anymore.

Hopefully by spending half a day doing all this, it will mean I wont have anymore LOW MEMORY issues. And most certainly little to no more of the dreaded (Not Responding) browser issues I seem to be getting dozens of times daily before today.